Teleology

In Politics by Aristotle, he defines how a city, or polis, should be run and how wealth can be acquired as well as how each city should be defined. A person’s relationship may be affected by what class they were born into, for example, slaves are central to creating and maintaining a polis. Of course while the city is built on people and their relationships, it still needs rules and regulations to keep these people in order. It is discussed in book three who is doing the ruling and electing…

Holocaust, it is imperative to be aware of the dangers of hindsight bias. Although one could look at the history of prejudice, discrimination, and violence toward Jews and assume that the Holocaust was an inevitable outcome of previous events, this teleology produces a far too simplistic explanation. It is true that historical accounts from ancient times, such as Manetho’s anti-Jewish counter narrative from the 3rd century BCE, share similar themes as those seen in modern times, such as in the…

Teleology is known as the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world.The Teleological Argument is also known as the Design argument.The teleological argument asserts the belief that there exists so much intricate detail, design , and purpose in the world that we must suppose a creator. This argument proves God’s existence because there cannot be intricate design and detail around the universe without a universal designer and that universal designer has to be God. Often it is…

For many veterans, war is not a heroic story or a means to achieve political ends instead it is a palpable reality in which they cannot escape. Kurt Vonnegut created his novel Slaughterhouse-Five not merely as a fiction narrative; it studies the profound and extensive influence on the historical and contemporary nature of human interaction situated in times of war: its moral, mental, and physical components and demands. Since the novel’s publication in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five continued its…

Medical personal is bound to a confidentiality vow to all the patients, that it’s why this case can present an ethical dilemma for a health care worker. Telling to a friend that the person he is dating is HIV positive would break this confidentiality vow between the health care worker and the patient. Patients have the right of confidentiality, but that is not the only thing that we need to consider when making this type of decisions. I think that there are many reasons that will justify sharing…

Even before considering those rules one's ethical bases determines their moral reasoning as with the infamous sports agent Josh Luchs. Ethical bases are defined by deontology (based on rules or what is right), teleology (based on consequences of action or what is good) or existentialism (based on the individual or intentions, motives or character) (Malloy, D. C., Ross, S., & Zakus, D. H. (2003). Luch’s claims to have paid the first player that he ever tried to recruit and seemingly many after…

balances being, however come about rather from an absence of being. In being remarkably great, God should likewise have vast being and unbounded force, following these are connected with goodness. The Greek philosophical world was unified with a teleology, in which there was reason and reason…

They are “engaged in the worst forms of child labor such as commercial and sexual exploitation,” (Region/Country, 2016). The framework that would be used to support the proponents statement would be teleology. Teleological is focuses on the purpose of an end goal. There are three types of the teleological ethical theories: ethical egoism, utilitarianism, and eudalmonism. Ethical Egoism is “an action is good if it produces or is likely to produce results…

Atharva Karnik PHL 201-(11) What Is Philosophy? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines philosophy as: the study of truth, nature, and meaning of life, a particular set of ideas about the aforementioned, and a set of ideas how to do something or live one’s life. So what is philosophy really? What’s the point of philosophy? Philosophy is something that allows people to analyze life in a non scientific manner and determine constraints and conditions for life, truth, and nature. It helps make…

The written word has been used not just for mere entertainment but as mean of expression when speaking is not possible. It is used to express joy, tragedies, horror, as well as uncertainty. Depending on the inclinations of the writer, he will choose the genre to express himself about a specific topic. For instance, some authors that are interested in writing about the future choose science fiction because it deals with what would happen to the human race after reaching the top of technological…